Ledger Hardware Wallet Probe Finds Suspicious Chip Ledger has confirmed that a customer’s Ledger hardware wallet contained an unauthorised electronic component, a discovery that surfaced during an ongoing inquiry into a reseller tied to millions of dollars in stolen crypto. Furthermore, the company says the tampered unit belonged to a user already caught up in … Read more
TCP/IP Protocol: The Digital Oxygen of the Internet Nearly four decades after a three-man startup in East London wired together its first low-cost local network, the TCP/IP Protocol remains the quiet plumbing beneath every videoconference, card payment and code commit on the planet. In 1988, a young programmer wrestled IBM’s NetBIOS API into something workable, … Read more
Mbps vs MB/s: Two Labels, Two Very Different Measurements Anyone shopping for broadband eventually confronts the Mbps vs MB/s question. However, few provider pages bother to explain the distinction. The confusion traces back to bits and bytes, the basic units of digital information. Bits represent the binary ones and zeros inside a stream of code, … Read more
Raspberry Pi Desktop Returns After a Four-Year Gap After a four-year silence, Raspberry Pi Desktop is back, and it skips Debian 12 entirely to land on Debian 13 ‘Trixie.’ Moreover, the new build brings the familiar Pi interface to ordinary PCs and Intel-based Macs, which makes it a practical option for anyone hoping to revive … Read more
Why USB Thumb Drive Backup Is Urgent Now USB thumb drive backup should top your priority list if you still rely on aging flash drives for important files. These tiny devices once ruled portable storage, yet cloud sync and external SSDs have largely replaced them. Nevertheless, countless users keep years of photos, documents, and projects … Read more
Social Reckoning Opens: The Social Reckoning Stumbles Out of the Gate With $5.5 Million Debut Aaron Sorkin’s highly anticipated follow-up to The Social Network has landed with a thud at the domestic box office. The Social Reckoning collected only $5.5 million during its opening weekend, falling short of the studio’s modest $7-8 million projection. Consequently, … Read more
Autonomous AI Attacks Demonstrate Alarming Speed Against OT Systems A new Booz Allen Hamilton report confirms that Autonomous AI Attacks can compromise operational technology environments with unprecedented speed and precision. The consulting firm’s OT lab tested eight attack scenarios using two leading frontier models, and each scenario achieved its objective. In one test, the models … Read more
Vertical Videos Move Beyond the Phone Vertical Videos have become synonymous with smartphones, quick swipes and social media feeds. Vurt, however, believes the format can support a broader entertainment category, including serialized programs watched on wide-screen televisions. The startup is betting that audiences will accept portrait-oriented shows in the living room instead of treating them … Read more
AI cybercriminals face new bot army defense AI cybercriminals face a new adversary as Australian startup Apate deploys thousands of conversational bots designed to waste scammer time and harvest intelligence. The company, named after the Greek goddess of deception, has built a platform that answers scam calls, infiltrates fraud chat groups, and replies to malicious … Read more
As the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology proliferates, from generative AI to an array of other AI applications, the topic of AI energy consumption has surged to the forefront of discussions about sustainability and environmental impact. The burgeoning demand for these technologies not only underscores their utility in modern life but also raises critical … Read more
